The version of avahi installed on the remote host is prior to 0.6.31-20. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2704 advisory.

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Predictable Transaction IDs (CVE-2024-52616)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:16441 advisory.

    Avahi is an implementation of the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast DNS specifications for Zero     Configuration Networking. It facilitates service discovery on a local network. Avahi and Avahi-aware     applications allow you to plug your computer into a network and, with no configuration, view other people     to chat with, view printers to print with, and find shared files on other computers.

    Security Fix(es):

    * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote RockyLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:16441 advisory.

    * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:03333-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-52615: wide-area DNS uses constant source port for queries and can expose the Avahi-daemon to     DNS spoofing       attacks (bsc#1233421).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:11402 advisory.

    * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-11402 advisory.

    [0.8-22.1]
    - Fix CVE-2024-52615 (RHEL-94847)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:03332-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-52615: wide-area DNS uses constant source port for queries and can expose the Avahi-daemon to     DNS spoofing       attacks (bsc#1233421).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2025:16441 advisory.

    * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-16441 advisory.

    [0.9~rc2-1.1]
    - Fix for CVE-2024-52615 (RHEL-67715)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-771 advisory.

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

    avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Predictable Transaction IDs (CVE-2024-52616)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:11402 advisory.

    Avahi is an implementation of the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast DNS specifications for Zero     Configuration Networking. It facilitates service discovery on a local network. Avahi and Avahi-aware     applications allow you to plug your computer into a network and, with no configuration, view other people     to chat with, view printers to print with, and find shared files on other computers.

    Security Fix(es):

    * avahi: Avahi Wide-Area DNS Uses Constant Source Port (CVE-2024-52615)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in Avahi-daemon, which relies on fixed source ports for wide-area DNS queries. This issue     simplifies attacks where malicious DNS responses are injected. (CVE-2024-52615)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
213369	Amazon Linux 2 : avahi (ALAS-2024-2704)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	12/23/2024	12/23/2024	medium
265736	RHEL 10 : avahi (RHSA-2025:16441)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	9/23/2025	9/23/2025	medium
266670	RockyLinux 10 : avahi (RLSA-2025:16441)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	10/6/2025	10/6/2025	medium
265829	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : avahi (SUSE-SU-2025:03333-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	9/25/2025	9/25/2025	medium
266723	RockyLinux 9 : avahi (RLSA-2025:11402)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	10/6/2025	10/6/2025	medium
242430	Oracle Linux 9 : avahi (ELSA-2025-11402)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	7/21/2025	7/21/2025	medium
265826	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : avahi (SUSE-SU-2025:03332-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	9/25/2025	9/25/2025	medium
269899	AlmaLinux 10 : avahi (ALSA-2025:16441)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	10/9/2025	10/9/2025	medium
265790	Oracle Linux 10 : avahi (ELSA-2025-16441)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	9/24/2025	9/24/2025	medium
212338	Amazon Linux 2023 : avahi, avahi-autoipd, avahi-compat-howl (ALAS2023-2024-771)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	12/11/2024	12/11/2024	medium
242422	RHEL 9 : avahi (RHSA-2025:11402)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	7/21/2025	10/9/2025	medium
231498	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-52615	Nessus	Misc.	3/6/2025	10/14/2025	medium

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